Table 1 Correlations between Bray-Curtis distances of fungal community and spatial or environmental variables checked through a Mantel test.

From: Fungal communities in sediments of subtropical Chinese seas as estimated by DNA metabarcoding

  

Spatial variables

Environmental variables

GD

Longitude

Latitude

TBW

WD

TOC

TN

C/N

pH

Salinity

Entire region

r

0.2959

0.2431

0.3220

0.0976

0.1535

−0.0032

0.0232

0.0647

−0.0591

0.2642

P

0.001*

0.007*

0.004*

0.133

0.011*

0.464

0.313

0.221

0.666

0.003*

YS

r

0.6630

0.2285

0.6956

0.3355

0.0094

0.1847

0.0891

0.1228

−0.0200

0.1656

P

0.001*

0.039*

0.001*

0.002*

0.415

0.053

0.246

0.095

0.550

0.064

BHS

r

0.3665

0.0185

0.5371

0.1091

−0.1256

−0.0746

0.2464

0.2943

−0.0550

−0.0454

P

0.028*

0.299

0.016*

0.232

0.672

0.627

0.121

0.026*

0.552

0.601

  1. GD = geographical distance (km), TBW = temperature of bottom water (°C), WD = water depth (m), TOC = total organic carbon (mg/g), TN = total nitrogen (mg/g), C/N = the ratio of total organic carbon to nitrogen. The asterisk indicates significance at the level of P value = 0.05.
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